PhotoFile imaging add-on

Updated September 5, 2000

What's Here?

	Introduction
	Features
	Licensing and evaluation information
	Developer Information

Introduction

Clean up your paper trail with PhotoFile! PhotoFile turns the paperwork associated with running your business into digital data that's associated with the data stored on the host computer you already connect to using ZTERM 2000 terminal emulation. Your software developers make some simple changes to your host-based application, PhotoFile can store, retrieve and print scanned images and photographs and associate them with records stored your databases on the host.

PhotoFile's document view with thumbnails enabled.

PhotoFile's batch assembly mode

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Features

PhotoFile supports:

• Distributive filing system allowing library achiving onto permanent media.
• Image aquisition from Twain compatible scanners including autofeeders and Video for Windows compatible capture devices. Importing images from disk file is also supported.
• G4 Fax TIFF format for monochrome images and JPEG format for captured images.
• Huge capacity: Over 15 million documents can be stored in the PhotoFile system. Each document can contain up to 255 pages.
• Scale to gray display means monochrome documents can be viewed full-screen on a 1024x768 monitor.
• Batch assembly mode allows batch document scanning followed by assembly at a later time.
• Deskew and despeckle functions for those "not so perfect" scans.
• Multi-page read-ahead for excellent page-to-page performance even on dialup and ISDN connections.

Licensing

PhotoFile is licensed both for the number of images stored in the system and for each system that will access the PhotoFile database. Each copy of PhotoFile requires either a USB or parallel-port security key plugged into the system at all times. The security key provides copy protection for PhotoFile and also sets the licensing level for PhotoFile on the system. Licensing levels are:

Level	Functions
Display	Display documents stored in the PhotoFile libraries.
Print	All above plus the ability to print documents
Scan	All above plus the ability to scan documents
Configure	All above plus the ability to create and expand PhotoFile libraries.

The Configure licensing level allows the addition of libraries up to the maximum purchased. Each library holds 62,500 documents with up to 255 pages per document. There is no developer's kit for PhotoFile - anyone may write code for PhotoFile, but a dongle is required for development purposes.

For example, if you wanted to be able to store 140,000 documents in the system using two scan stations and display on ten PCs, you'd need the following dongles:

• One configure dongle with three libraries
• One scan dongle
• Ten display dongles

There is no free version for evaluation purposes since we must license the imaging toolkit we used to build PhotoFile on a system by system basis. If you're an application developer and wish to evaluate PhotoFile before you purchase the runtime dongles, please contact us.

Developer Information

Please follow this link for the developer's documentation. We also have a PhotoFile Walkthrough for developers that are working with PhotoFile for the first time.